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/         On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.  \
| There are lots of phrases.  My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale   |
| is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright,      |
| non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do      |
| several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works   |
| best, write it down and make that the standard.                            |
|         The OSI view is entirely opposite.  You take written contributions |
| from a much larger community, you put the contributions in a room of       |
| committee people with, quite honestly, vast political differences and all  |
| with their own political axes to grind, and four years later you get       |
| something out, usually without it ever having been implemented once.       |
|         So the Internet perspective is implement it, make it work well,    |
| then write it down, whereas the OSI perspective is to agree on it, write   |
| it down, circulate it a lot and now we'll see if anyone can implement it   |
| after it's an international standard and every vendor in the world is      |
| committed to it.  One of those processes is backwards, and I don't think   |
| it takes a Lucasian professor of physics at Oxford to figure out which.    |
\                 -- Marshall Rose, "The Pied Piper of OSI"                  /
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